Rom manager makes it easier to install roms, especially Cyanogen.
The difference is clockwork vs sprecovery. Clockwork has alot more features as far as recovery is concerned. I have a bias towards sprecovery, but I have to admit it do not have near as much features as clockwork.

I wouldn't say either necessarily has an advantage over the other. Rom Mananger is not the recovery though, it's clockwork. Rom Manager is awesome because you can download a ton of roms and themes straight from the app and it pretty much does all the work for you. Rom Manager does use Clockwork Recovery. There are a few roms out there that recommend using sprecovery but if you read up on the rom before hand you will know which ones they are. Hopefully that helps a little.

With sprecovery you can mount the system (comes in handy for doing adb without booting up, among other things), and enable usb storage so you can get on the sd card without being booted up as well. I don't know if that can be done in clockwork - ?

Rom Manager takes care of the work for you, you select the rom to download, when it finishes downloading you have the options to backup your current rom and wipe data and cache. Make your selections and then everything is automatic from there, you just have to wait for it to install and boot up.

Granted its not hard to do this manually, just sort of a luxury in my eyes...I've never had a problem using either method

With sprecovery you can mount the system (comes in handy for doing adb without booting up, among other things), and enable usb storage so you can get on the sd card without being booted up as well. I don't know if that can be done in clockwork - ?

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You can mount with clockwork the same way. You can also install roms with out renaming it update.zip. Again I am bias to sprecovery, but I have to give credit where its due.

people with droids are use to and are comfortable with sprecovery. If we were introduced to clockwork at the same time sprecovery was released, and roms used both we would probably see more people choosing clockwork.
The problem is that when clockwork was first released people were having problems and it seemed to take an act of God to get it off your phone. The negative stigma is still there. So some people do not feel comfortable unless they see the gold and blue writing of sprecovery. I am the same....If the rom do not have sprecovery I am hesitant even though clockwork has more features and offer an easier way to falsh roms from your phone. Through Rom manager you can install a rom from your sdcard ....any rom. You can even install a rom using from the rom manager screen and it will install it whil you play with your phone, of course it will reboot into recovery and so on...but it is a nice feature. So clockwork is far more advance, even though sprecovery is what people feel more comfortable with.

I'm not sure what the debate is about -- I've used both and still do -- and seriously guys, there isn't that much difference. Yes the packaging to the zips and such, but its just as easy to use both once you have a few tools inplace.

My biggest beef -- Update sperecovery. I guess that goes back to the old sholesmod breakup and dispute among the contributors, so I'll let sleeping dogs lie -- but seriously a new updated version with more features would be great.

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